Illinois: History of Cass, County, Illinois, ed. William
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers,
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.
WILLIAM H. McCORMICK, distiller, Beardstown; was born in
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 24, 1838, and received his
education in his native city. At fourteen years of age he
began working as train boy, and at other employments, and
at the age of nineteen became conductor of a train running
between Indianapolis, Ind., and Cincinnati, O., remaining
in that position, on that road, till 1873, with the
exception of four years, which he spent in Tennessee. He
went to that State in 1863, and was employed as conductor
on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroads till 1866, when
he returned to Indianapolis, and was employed by the
company he had formerly worked for as conductor, running
between Cincinnati, O., and Lafayette, Ind., until 1873.
In that year he retired from railroading, and devoted his
attention to the livery business, in Lafayette, Ind., till
1870, when he sold out and removed to Beardstown. He then
again engaged in his former occupation of conductor, on the
Springfield division of the O. & M. Railroad, until the
spring of 1880, when he engaged in the distilling business
in Beardstown. In 1858, he married Emma A. Brown, of
Indianapolis, Ind.
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